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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:41:32 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, jdp@FreeBSD.ORG, deischen@FreeBSD.ORG, jasone@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jlemon@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linking libc before libc_r into application causes weird problems
Message-ID:  <20020208164132.D78163@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C63AD02.79BA5AF5@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <1013147180.73417.2.camel@notebook> <20020207234233.D23162@canonware.com> <3C639A8C.6D100326@FreeBSD.org> <3C63A62D.3E4A4FC4@mindspring.com> <3C63AD02.79BA5AF5@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:48:34PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > 
> > Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > That would be nice, but we have a real problem at hand. As I said, I
> > > think that ld(1) should be smart enough to reorder libc/libc_r so that
> > > libc_r is always linked before libc. This is clearly not the case
> > > right now. Unfortunately there is no easy way to reproduce this, but
> > > if you have some spare CPU cycles try to remore explicit -pthread from
> > > ports/mail/evolution/Makefile, build the port on -current and do `ldd
> > > /usr/X11R6/bin/evolution'. You will see that libc.so.X precedes
> > > libc_r.so.X, even though -lc wasn't supplied to a linker, while -lc_r
> > > was.
> > 
When you say ld(1), are you perhaps mean rtld-elf.so.1 (aka rtld(1))?
ld(1) only _links_ when static linkage was requested (which is not the
case here), or writes dynamic dependencies on shared objects.

> > You aren't including the linker lines for the libraries
> > specified before the -lc_r (which may themselves be linked
> > against libc.so instead of libc_r.so, which is wrong),
> > and you aren't including the final link line.
> > 
> > See the recent patch to ldd to make it work against .so
> > libraries (unfortunately, it's only in -current, not yet
> > in -stable).
> 
> Heh, actually I'm an author of that patch. :)))
> 
*LOL*


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